The "we hold these truths to be self-evident" part is the preamble?
I thought the "when in the course of human events" part was the preamble. It
comes first, anyway.
Actually, I never heard the D of I being referred to as having a preamble.
I'd always heard "preamble" applied to the beginning paragraph/sentence of
the Constitution; "We the people of the united States, in order to ...".